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I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for creating the article! Have a blessed day!

✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 12:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SunDawnThank you as well SunDawn, same to you!

Cheers,

GGOTCC (talk) 20:06, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello and thankyou for creating an article about this obscure but interesting class!

I note that the article describes the type as 'torpedo gunboats', and the article itself at one point conflates the ratings of 'gunvessel' and 'gunboat'. Might I recommend that the article be titled 'Curlew-class torpedo gunvessel' to aid readers in distinguishing between this interesting dead-end and the contemporary (and ultimately more successful) torpedo gunboat HMS Rattlesnake.

In the Royal navy, the primary distinction between the gunvessel and slightly smaller gunboat was the command: A gunvessel was the posting of a Commander, while a gunboat would be commanded by a Lieutenant. It's an interesting distinction and not one very often mentioned in modern sources (Conways does actually specifically mention it though).

Since the Curlew was an attempt at 'torpedoifying' the old gunvessel rate (a type which was steadily losing prominence due to the ever-increasing size of the gunboat rate), the RN did rate them as such. The gunboat's transition into a torpedo craft was obviously more successful, and I believe that the dead-end nature of this class might be better highlighted and contextualised by naming it according to its historical rate. Do you feel that this suggestion has merit? 2A00:23C7:3100:B501:19EF:848F:96FE:1A09 (talk) 16:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]